A song I wrote for my beautiful darling Tabitha.

Pondering

I'll Look After You

Deciduous

1. The Breeze

Fragmentification

Hatch For Guitar And Glockenspiel

This arrangement of instruments is specifically designed for an intimate focus on the complex rhythms, and the relationship between the marimba player and the bongo player. The carillonneur represents a human searching for treasure – the yogo sapphires, in the wrong place, while the bongo player still has sight of the carillonneur, calling them back to reality. The marimba player finds treasure or love in the bongo player, thus this complex “love triangle” makes sense.

Yogo Sapphires for a Variety of Percussion

“The Weather Machine” is an electro-acoustic work that I composed and produced using Cubase Elements 10.5. It combines samples from a real glockenspiel that I recorded, a voice sample, loops of synth pads, electronic bass, and a driving rock beat with several variations.

This was the first time I attempted to invent my own midi-instrument. I started by playing each individual glockenspiel note and recording them into audacity.

I exported these samples and dragged each note into a corresponding note on the piano roll editor in Cubase, and I was now able to play my glockenspiel with my midi keyboard.

The other instruments were from Cubase packages, forming a full sonic soundscape. I used and extrapolated the glockenspiel motifs throughout the different instruments and experimented with a reverb effect on the second glockenspiel line and voice sample.

The voice sample is from a radio interview of Lord Peter Ritchie-Calder on the first Science Show in 1976, warning about the effects of fossil fuels on the climate. “The Weather Machine” is a curious phrase that Ritchie-Calder used in the interview, and became the title of my piece.

The Weather Machine

"The Florist's Deathbed". Premiered on Sat 18 March 2023 played by Wendy Murphy at the CSA AGM recital on the National Carillon.

The Florist's Deathbed for Carillon Live

Moldy Cheese

Something Exists Somewhere Demo Recording

Canberra has been in a state of perpetual roadwork for far too long. Drive anywhere through the City and surrounding suburbs for more than a minute and you will see roadwork signs, road cones, fenceposts, and detours everywhere. This wind quintet was written out of annoyance that none of Canberra’s roadwork seems to be finished after months of the same signs, to the point that no one cares about the new speed limits anymore. This composition aims to capture the industrial ambition of new infrastructures, while mocking the chaos and slow progress of it all.

This performance was recorded by the Band of the Royal Military College, Duntroon. The recording has been artificially accelerated to reach a "presto" tempo.

Perpetual Roadwork for Wind Quintet

Highlights from my new album release, "Pondering".

Pondering Highlights Reel

Award Winning Australian Composer, Co-Founder of Bravo Music Tuition, Yes Tragic & 2001 A Space Odyssey Apologist. https://caspianscott.net/pondering/

Caspian Scott

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